Friday, January 4, 2013

The Lovely Lengthy Philosophical Treatise in the Works

. . . has fallen to the wayside.

This beautiful boy?

Felled by the flu: he is a limp, feverish, bundle of projectile vomiting. The school returned him to his mother that way, a couple of hours early.

So instead of the rich, nuanced reflection on mortality that's in the hopper, the Matron has only a nod to what happens while we're pondering the meaning of life: its details. Which include sick nine-year old boys. Yours truly must also note a pattern here. The beginning or end of each semester, without fail, brings disaster.

Here are some bona fide real life examples: lice, appendicitis, flu, major psychological breakdown for a child, and strep throat. These are inter-changeable and pretty much a guarantee.